The race for mayor of Chicago has turned into a five-person dash to the finish, according to results of an exclusive Telemundo Chicago/NBC 5 poll. With 12 days and counting until the election, nearly one in five voters still hasn’t made up his or her mind, according to the exclusive […] Read more »
Ronald Reagan and Nancy Pelosi: 2 Real Professionals
Former President Ronald Reagan is hands down the most electorally successful American politician of the post-World War II era. As the outsider nominee of the nation’s then-decidedly minority party, nobody has ever come close to matching his back-to-back 44-state and 49-state landslide White House victories. Acknowledged as a conviction conservative, […] Read more »
Chicago and Race: Perception, Polling and Reality
… Here at The Times’s polling department, we often try to assess the state of race relations and discrimination in the United States. It’s a difficult task because conversations about race often rely on coded language or careful discussion, which means there are certain things we can know through surveys, […] Read more »
How Chicagoans Voted and Why
An exit poll was conducted by Edison Research in 30 randomly selected Chicago electoral precincts. CONT. New York Times Read more »
Chicago: Tribune poll shows Mayor Emanuel with double-digit lead on Garcia
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has opened up a double-digit lead on challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, gaining support from a majority of voters for the first time in his bid for a second term, a new Chicago Tribune poll has found. The survey had Emanuel at 51 percent to 37 percent for […] Read more »